{"id":1034340,"date":"2026-09-10T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034340"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:21:11","slug":"smartphone-companies-step-up-festive-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/smartphone-companies-step-up-festive-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone companies step up festive hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Hiring of temporary and seasonal workers for festive season sales of smartphones are expected to be 34% higher than 2025, reaching around 39,600 in 2026 driven by the need for assisted selling, financing-led conversions, and stronger product demonstrations amidst steep price hikes denting demand, staffing firms said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Quess Staffing Solutions, hiring in smartphone retail increased 36.3% year-on-year in the January-August 2026 period, with August alone seeing the highest monthly level on record. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This momentum is also reflected in the festive outlook, with July-December hiring expected to reach around 39,600, approximately 34% higher than 2025,&#8221; said Nitin Dave, CEO, Quess Staffing Solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Hiring of temporary and seasonal workers for festive season sales of smartphones are expected to be 34% higher than 2025, reaching around 39,600 in 2026 driven by the need for assisted selling, financing-led conversions, and stronger product demonstrations amidst steep price hikes denting demand, staffing firms said. According to Quess Staffing Solutions, hiring in smartphone retail increased 36.3% year-on-year in the January-August 2026 period, with August alone seeing the highest monthly level on record. &#8220;This momentum is also reflected in the festive outlook, with July-December hiring expected to reach around 39,600, approximately 34% higher than 2025,&#8221; said Nitin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034372,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034340\/revisions\/1034372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}